This server provides simple access to the English/Japanese Japanese/English
dictionary edict (and several other related dictionaries). Searches can
be either based upon English, romaji, or raw Japanese. Searches result in
the listing of pairs of related Japanese and English. There is also a
kanji database server as well, which gives access to kanjidic.

Using This Server

What is Available
The main attractions here are the Japanese/English English/Japanese word
lists (i.e. dictionaries - words, names, legal terms, and life-science
terms, etc.), and the database of kanji information. In addition, some might
find value in the general descriptions of Japanese writing and encoding.

Navigation
There are smart warp-to buttons placed at the bottom of most pages.
Generally, there will usually be one available to whisk you to an
index of most concepts within the virtual world of this
server.

If you are on a PC and your browser doesn't support Japanese, or
if you think it might if only you had the proper fonts, Microsoft has
made a TrueType font available freely (and it will work with other
browsers as well). Read the documentation
and fetch the font as
a self-extracting .exe file.

Japanese Input for Windows running IE4.0 or greater
If you are using Windows and IE4.0 on an English version of Windows 95/NT4.0
(not only English, but any non-Japanese version, actually), you can now
input Japanese text via the freely-available IME4.0.
You can also get the full language pack for Japanese as well.
For more recent Windows OS versions, there's more info about Microsft IME's.

Probably not of interest to you since your browser seems to support
raw Japanese, but perhaps of interest to a less-endowed friend:
Because of my support for ``graphical text,'' anyone with a graphical
browser can use the full potential of this server, Japanese-support or
not. As far as I know, this is the only site on the internet that
provides this support explicitly.

Based upon some email exchanges with me back in 1992,
Tad Perry wrote the very useful Quick and Dirty
Guide to Japanese (a 32 k-byte text file). Should be
very useful to the student of Japanese. Now, if I would spend my
time reading it instead of playing with this server, my own Japanese
would improve....